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Alternatives to Dorothy
Dorothy: Mac app for developers to run, watch and coordinate several AI coding agents side by side with a task board. Here are 24 other products that do a similar job. Of these, 20 have a free plan, 1 sells for a one-off price.
- AQ
A shared workspace where teams run Claude Code, Codex and other coding agents on tasks, scheduled bots and reviewed pull requests.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Cadre
Local Kanban board for handing tasks to coding agents like Claude Code and Codex, then reviewing plans and diffs before merging.
Since 2026
Free plan · Projects and tasks · Developers
- Traycer
Open-source desktop app that runs Claude Code, Codex and Cursor agents in parallel, each with its own worktree and shared specs.
Since 2025
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Baton
Desktop app that runs several AI coding agents in separate git worktrees and tells you when each needs input.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- bb
Open source desktop workspace for running several coding agents side by side, extended with plugins and prompts.
Developer tools · Developers
- Castforge
A Windows app that runs several AI coding agents as planner, coders, tester and reviewer on a shared board you control.
Since 2026
Free · Developer tools · Developers
- Cockpit
A free Mac app that puts all your Claude Code, Codex and Kiro sessions in one window so you can see which need a reply.
Since 2026
Free · Developer tools · Developers
- CoIsland
Mac app that pulls builds, deploys, pull requests and errors into one small inbox and hands fixes to a coding agent.
Since 2026
Free plan · Uptime and monitoring · Developers
- Emdash
A desktop app for running coding agents in parallel Git worktrees, scheduling their work and reviewing the diffs.
Free · Developer tools · Developers
- littleguys
A Mac app that lets developers chat with, approve and schedule their AI coding agents as if they were messaging contacts.
Since 2026
Free · Developer tools · Developers
- Parley
Lets a team's AI coding agents pass work to each other over MCP and pings a person in Slack when stuck.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Selfship
Watches your AI agent's real traffic, finds where it fails customers and opens tested pull requests with fixes.
Since 2026
Subscription · Uptime and monitoring · Developers
- Twill
Lets developers move Claude Code or Codex tasks from their Mac to cloud sandboxes and get pull requests back.
Since 2026
Subscription · Developer tools · Developers
- Velane
Hosts agents, small APIs and internal tools with sandboxes, secrets, environments and many app connections, run from your editor.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Yokka
A kanban board that shows what each AI coding agent is doing and alerts you when one needs your input.
Since 2026
Free plan · Projects and tasks · Developers
- AgentDM
Gives each AI agent an alias so agents and people can message each other over MCP and A2A, with a Slack bridge.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Agentmux
A phone and tablet SSH app for developers to resume tmux sessions, browse remote files and start coding agents with a tap.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- AI Commander
Lets AI assistants like Claude, Codex or ChatGPT run shell commands and background jobs on machines you own, with no inbound ports opened.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Athas
A light open-source code editor with coding agents, terminals and Git built in, for Mac, Windows and Linux.
Free · Developer tools · Developers
- boxes.dev
Gives each AI coding agent its own cloud Linux machine, started from Slack, Linear or an API and managed from any device.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Chatcode
Lets developers reach Claude Code or Codex sessions running on their own server from a browser tab or Telegram.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Choji
A set of AI agents that turn customer requests into tickets, code changes and reviewed pull requests for software teams.
Since 2026
Subscription · Developer tools · Developers
- Clor
Runs Claude Code and Codex jobs in parallel inside isolated containers, locally or on cloud runners, with memory shared across them.
Since 2018
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- CodexBar
A Mac menu bar app that shows usage limits, credits, costs and reset times for the AI coding tools a developer pays for.
Free · Developer tools · Developers